Originally Posted By: esshup
TJ:

Yep, I'd be out looking now. If you find some that are old, remember that place for next year. They can get pretty big, I've found 20#'ers. I've found them under old, but still living Maples. I have only found Morels on my place once in the last 6 years, and it was only a few Yellow's. I used to go out in the Fall with another guy that really knew his 'shrooms, we'd pick a bunch of buttons in the Fall as well.

One tip. Never, I mean NEVER pick them and put them in a plastic bag. The one time that I got sick was when we put them in a plastic garbage bag. IIRC we had 4 bags FULL, and tossed them all after the first meal.


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What happened? They spoiled? I always collect in a mesh bag to encourage spores to fall and repopulate in new areas as I thrash through the brambles...please tell me more about the spoiled hen of the woods.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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